You work with your own API key, keeping models, usage, and costs under your control.
Tools
ScholarStudio brings together a set of tools designed around core academic practices. Each tool supports a particular way of working: reading closely, writing carefully, thinking collaboratively, and sustaining intellectual projects over time.
MyGPT
A configurable AI work partner designed for academic use. MyGPT supports critique, structuring, revision, and reflection, while keeping prompts, models, and costs visible and under user control.
Academic writing
Tools that support drafting, revising, and reworking academic texts. The focus is on argumentation, structure, and voice rather than surface-level correction or stylistic polish.
Guided reading
Structured support for working through complex academic texts. These tools help with tracking arguments, clarifying concepts, and supporting slow, attentive reading rather than summary alone.
Meetings and minutes
Tools for preparing, structuring, and reflecting on academic meetings. Designed for supervision, research collaboration, and administrative work where clarity and continuity matter.
Tools can be combined, arranged, and revisited within your Studio workspace to match your own ways of working.
Who it’s for
ScholarStudio is for people who care about thinking carefully, reading attentively, and writing with purpose. It is designed for those who want to use AI as part of serious intellectual work, without surrendering judgment, authorship, or responsibility.
Scholars and teachers
ScholarStudio supports research, supervision, teaching, and writing across disciplines. It is suited to those who work with complex texts, evolving arguments, and long-term projects, and who want tools that respect the rhythms and demands of scholarly work rather than forcing generic productivity workflows onto them.
Students and early researchers
For students and early-career researchers, ScholarStudio offers structured support for learning how to think with AI rather than simply producing outputs. It is particularly useful where guidance is unevenly distributed, and where developing independent scholarly voice matters.
AI-curious, but cautious thinkers
ScholarStudio is for those who are interested in AI but uneasy about how it is often framed and used. If you value rigor, transparency, and accountability, and want to engage with AI without hype or shortcuts, ScholarStudio is designed with you in mind.
AI stance
Collaboration, not substitution
ScholarStudio treats AI as a partner in scholarly work rather than a substitute for thinking. It is designed to support critique, structure, and reflection: asking questions, testing interpretations, and making assumptions explicit. The aim is not to replace authorship, but to strengthen it.
Transparency by design
ScholarStudio avoids hidden automation and opaque workflows. Choices about models, prompts, and costs are visible to users, and their consequences are legible. This transparency reflects a simple principle: responsible use of AI depends on understanding what a tool is doing, and why.
Philosophy
ScholarStudio is built on a simple conviction: academic work is a form of thinking that unfolds over time. It involves uncertainty, revision, and return. Tools should support that process rather than rush it, simplify it away, or disguise it behind fluent outputs. ScholarStudio treats AI not as a shortcut, but as a collaborator situated within scholarly practice.
Calm by design
ScholarStudio is intentionally restrained. The interface aims to reduce cognitive noise rather than compete for attention. Nothing is designed to shout, interrupt, or push users toward constant action. This calm is a practical response to the demands of sustained academic thought.
Persistence over speed
Academic work rarely happens in a single sitting. Ideas develop across days, weeks, and months, often under interruption. ScholarStudio privileges continuity: workspaces persist, arrangements remain intelligible, and users can return to their work without reconstructing context. Speed matters only insofar as it serves clarity.
Autonomy and transparency
ScholarStudio is built to respect the judgment of its users. Configuration choices, model selection, and costs are visible and user-controlled. Trade-offs are not hidden behind defaults. Responsible use of AI is expressed through design choices and constraints, not through disclaimers or automation that removes agency.
About ScholarStudio
ScholarStudio is designed by education professionals for academic and intellectual work. It emerged from long-term engagement with teaching, research, supervision, and institutional life in higher education, and from sustained reflection on how digital tools shape scholarly practice.
Grounded in academic practice
ScholarStudio is shaped by over two decades of experience in higher education. Its design reflects familiarity with how academic work is actually done: across fragmented time, under institutional constraints, and in dialogue with evolving ideas rather than finished products.
Designed, not branded
ScholarStudio is not a generic productivity platform retrofitted for academia. Its tools, workflows, and defaults are deliberately chosen to support scholarly reading, writing, analysis, and reflection. Design decisions are guided by use, not by trends.
Positioned, not neutral
ScholarStudio does not claim neutrality with respect to AI. It embodies a set of commitments about agency, responsibility, and scholarly integrity. These commitments are expressed through interface choices, constraints, and transparency rather than through abstract policy statements.
Try it
ScholarStudio is best understood by using it. You do not need to commit to a workflow, adopt a methodology, or accept a particular view of AI in advance. You can explore the workspace, arrange tools, and see how they fit your own way of working.
ScholarStudio is currently in active development. Accounts are available for early exploration.
You work with your own API key, keeping models, usage, and costs under your control.